From: tony
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Date: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:31 AM
Subject: further fruit thoughts for your bubbling laughter gland
There's this thing you can do to monkeys. You cut a hole in a box and put a [insert monkey fruit you know the fruit they like, roughly hand-sized] and you put a fruit in there that they like. If they're hungry enough, they'll stick their hand in there to get the fruit but they won't be able to get it back out because the fruit, but not a monkey-hand, can only go through the hole at a time. The monkey eventually gives up, after fifteen minutes of thoughtful attempts to get the fruit out.
Then there's me, 34 years later, still panicking about the fruit thing, unable to be calm during my fifteen minutes of futility.
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Tony Smith, Head Research Fellow, flipLab Research
"Captain, there's a hole in the ass reactor."